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(No-Model.)

LOAD BINDER.

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LOAD-BINDER SPECIFICATION forming part o1' Letters Patent No. 371,792, dated October 18n 1887.

Application filed January 25, 1387. Serial No. 5225.436. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Bc it known that I, PETER SABOURIN, of NVest Berkshire, county of Franklin, and State of Vermont, have invented an Improvement in Load-Binders, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invent-ion has for its object to construct a load binder especially adapted for lumbermens use, whereby a binding cord or chain employed to bind a load of wood, hay, straw, or other material may be very easily secured and drawn taut.

The invention consists in the combination, with two drawing or tightening chains or cords, of a carrier, to which the said chains or cords are attached, and means for moving the said carrier and locking it in any desired position by the operator. The carrier in this instance is i'ormed as a screw-threaded rod or bar having au enlarged flattened head, said rod n'ioving freely in a suitable supportingframe, and a hand-lever is employed, which turns on the screw-threaded rod, and bearing against the uppcrside of the supporting-frame in its rotation, raises or lowers the carrier, thereby tightening or loosening the drawingchains. l

The device is preferably supplied with a suitable hase-block or foundation-plate, upon which the su pporting-frame is placed,and also with a suitable handle.

Figure l shows in side elevation a loadbiuder embodying this invention, and Fig. 2 an edge View thereof.

The supporting-frame c, of py ramidal shape, has feet c', bearingV upon a base-block, c2, the said frame e being preferably open to contain a carrier, herein shown as a screw-threaded rod or bar, 66",) having an enlarged flattened head, a3, and passing vertically through a hole cut in the top ofthe frame a.

The screw-threaded bar is supported by a hand-lever, a5, which is screw-threaded and turned upon the bar c", the said hand-lever c5 being held down upon. the top of the frame a by the weight of the carrier and its attached parts. The screw-threaded rod at, thus snpported by the hand-lever, will be raised and lowered by rotation, of the said hand-lever.

Two chains, b b', (herein shown as composed of connected links) are secured to the bar c3, passing downward and leading from the opposite sides of the lower portion of the frame a, the said chains having secured to their outer ends suitable engaging-hooks, b2 b3.

Instead of employing chains, as b b', cords or any equivalents may be employed.

The oppositeends of a binding-cord surrounding a load of wood,l hay, straw, or it may be a bale of hay or some other object to p be bound together,are made fast to the engaging-hooks b2 bf of the chains, the base-block f, upon which the frame c rests at such time, resting upon or against the load or other object. The hand-lever a5 is then rotated, causing the screw-threaded bar a* to rise, thereby drawing the engaging ends b2b of the cords or chains toward each other to tighten the binding-cord. The cords or chains bear against friction-rolls mounted freely upon rods c, secured wit-hin the metallic loops c at each side of the frame c, so that when the engaginghooks b2 b are moved toward each other by a vertically-moving carrier little resistance will be offered.

l. In a load-binder, the rigid supportingframe a, loops or arms c c', projecting from it, combined with two drawing chains or cords,

and a vertically-moving carrier, to which the said chains or cords are attached, and means for moving the said carrier vertically.

2. In a load-binder, the rigid supportingframe and vertically-moving carrier within it, combined with the drawing chains or cords connected with the vertically-moving carrier, and means for moving the said carrier, substantially as described..

3. In a load-binder, the rigid supportingframe c and base-block a2, upon which it rests, the projecting loops or arms c c upon each side of the supporting-frame, combined with drawing chains or cords, a vertically-moving carrier or bar, to which the said chains or cords are attached, and a hand-lever for meving the said carrier or bar, substantially as described.

4. The-rigid supporting-frame a,` laterallyprojecting loops or arms c c', and the draw-` ing-chains, combined with the screw-threaded .carrier or bar, to which the said drawingchains are connected, and a hand-lever turn- IOC) ing upon the screw-threaded portion ofthe car- In testimony whereof I have signed my name rier or bar against the supporting-frame for to this specification in the presence of two subraising and lowering the carrier,substantially scribing witnesses. as described. 5 5. The rigid supporting-frame a, its loops or PETER SABOURIN.

arms c' c', rods c c, and friction-rollers, combined with the cords or chains moving against Witnesses: the friction-rollers, a carrier, to which the said CHARLEs R. ELRIcK, drawing-chains are attached, and means for P. S. EWINs.

1o moving said carrier, substantially as described. 

